Apparatus for coating wire with metal



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APPARATUS PORCO'ATINGA WIRE WITH METAL.

A No; 296,094. Patented Apr. 1,1884.

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APPARATUS FOR COATING WIRE WITH METAL.

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LEWIS WILLIAMS, OF JOHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE GAMBRIA IIRON COMPANY, OF PENNSYLVANIA.

APPARATUS FOR COATING W IRE WITH METAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 296,094, dated April 1,18814:.

Application filed October 5, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS WILLIAMS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Johnstown, in the county of Oambria and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Coating WVirewith Metal, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an apparatus to be used in the application ofcoils of finewire for the purpose of removing the superfluous metal fromwire in the process of coating with zinc or other metal. I

The apparatus is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure .1 is a side view of the mechanism; Fig. 2, an end view, and Fig.3 atop view.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several views.

it is the vessel containing the melted metal through which the wirepasses, and to the top of which the standards b b are secured.

d and d are the coils of fine wire, throughthe rods m, which are hookedto the upper ends of the bell-crank levers 0.- To the other ends of saidbell-crank levers 0 may be suspended suitable weights, 1). supports thelevers 0.

f is a stand which supports the levers e.

c c are bars, between which the metal-coated wires pass, and on theunder side of which the wiping-coils impinge, and are thus held in aproper position. The screws 13 pass through the stand'h, and bear on theends of the bell crank levers e for the purpose of adjusting the wires 8centrally between the bars 0 a. The amount of metal left on the wires .3is regulated by varying the size of the weights 9.

a is a sinker, for the purpose of keeping the wires to be coated beneaththe surface of the metal, (indicated by the dotted line w.)

j is a lever secured to the sinker-shaft u, by means of which the sinkercan be raised out of themetal by turning the lever into the positionshown by the dotted lines 21.

7c and l are pins inserted in suitable holes in the standard I), toretain the sinker in its po sition both within and without the metal.

42. is a stand which I have shown in Figs. 2 and 3 an apparatus formanipulating twelve wires; but by proper duplication of parts it may bearranged for a greater or less number of wires.

The machine is operatedas follows: The weights p being removed from theends of the bell-cranks 0, and the lever 1) being placed in the positionindicated by the dotted lines, the wires to be coated are passed underthe sinker a and above the melted metal in the direction indicated bythe arrow; then up through the wiping-coils d d, and between the bars 0c to the reels on which they are to be wound, and to which their endsare fastened. The weights 1) are then placed in their proper positions,and the lever is turned to the position shown at j, which, thrusting thesinker a downward, submerges the wires, the

pin Z being inserted to keep the sinker in this position. The reels arethen started, and as the wire is wound up it passes through the meltedmetal, beneath the sinker a, and up through the wipers d d, which removeall the superfluous metal, the amount removed being governed by theheaviness of the weights 1).

I am aware that prior to my invention wire has been used as a wiper forremoving the superfluous metal in coating wire with metal. I thereforedo not claim the use .of wire as a wiper; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. The combination, in a wire-wiping machine, of the wire-wiping coils dd with the bars a c, substantially as described.

2. In a wire-wiping machine, the combination of the wire coils d d withthe levers o e,

'weights p,and screws 12, substantially as described, and for thepurpose set forth.

3. In a wire-wiping machine, the combination of the wire'wiping coils dd, the'bars c 0, and levers 0 c, with sinker a, shaft u, and lever j,substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

LEWIS WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

GYRUs ELDER, JAMES M. SwANK, J r.

